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Nearby restaurant offers down home country cookin’
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^ MSC Rudder Box Office
• Selena the Movie, Sat, Sept 13, 7 p.m. in Rudder.
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845-1234
By Travis Irby
Staff writer
eat is meat, and a
man has got to eat” is
a phrase coined long
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Ask many die-hard carnivores,
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Enter the Country Inn Steak
ouse in Somerville.
The Country Inn Steak House
ner Edgar Archer, have satiated
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lod excellent.
Visitors from all over Texas
r>> lake a special trip to Somerville to
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ound.
“I have people from Dallas
hedule their business trips so they
in make a stop in Somerville,”
rcher said.
Waitress Gay Smith, who has
orked at the Country Inn for two
;ars, agrees.
“During football season we have
ft* eople drive out to see us before or
ter the games,” she said.
Thirty minutes away from Col
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i house beer joint. The first floor
Dntained the beer and a small
tchen with an occasional cook.
"The original owners would
iok sometimes, and sometimes
ey wouldn’t,” Archer said. “If
meone came by and the owners
eren’t in the mood to cook, you
ere out of luck.”
As time and owners went by, the
er house became a steak house,
hen Archer took over there was a
in business due to the oil bust.
“I followed the previous owners’
methods, until I could establish my
own/’ he said.
Archer, who handles cooking du
ties, had no prior experience as a
chef or restaurateur.
“I paid attention to methods
used at other restaurants, picking
up ideas that appealed to me,”
Archer said.
Guests at the Country Inn Steak
House can order anything from a 2-
1b. T-bone to filet mignon. If it is red
meat, it is in Somerville.
One of the strengths of a good
steak house is the ability to cook
meat properly.
“We try to undercook the meat a
little bit, just in case they want to
take it back,” Archer said. “It doesn’t
happen often though.”
Archer said to insure the quality of
the meat, Country Inn employees cut
the meat themselves, and never
freeze it.
The chicken fried steak at
Country Inn has an equally grand
reputation.
Cody Lemons, a senior nuclear
engineering major, said the meat is
so tender it melts in his mouth.
Archer said the round meat is
one reason the meat is tender.
“Unlike a lot of places, we try to
use only inside round steak, as op
posed to both the inside and out
side round steak,” Archer said.
Lemons gave the Country Inn his
seal of approval.
“1 consider myself a chicken
fried steak connoisseur, and I give
this four out of five stars,” he said.
Seafood is also available at the
inn. Archer said the secret behind
the success of his seafood is the bat
ter, which comes from his brother’s
recipe.
Senior English major Jake Carr
said the seafood is worth sampling.
“The shrimp was excellent,”
Carr said. “It didn’t have the iodine
taste associated with seafood this
far inland.”
The portions given would leave
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in Rudder.
• Robert Earl Keen Fri, Sept 19, 7 p.m. at Wolf Pen Creek.
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DAVE HOUSE/The Battalion
Tammy Owen displays 3 1/2-lb. sirloin at the Country Inn in Somerville.
diners to believe dessert is a far-off
dream. Banana split pie is one of the
many desserts offered. The pie is es
sentially a banana split in a graham
cracker crust.
Smith said service is one of the
best features of the steak house.
“It can get pretty hectic around
here,” she said. “But the customers
are so laid back—it’s great. Many of
the customers are regulars so you
develop friends.”
Archer has one goal for its cus
tomers.
“When people leave the restau
rant, I don’t want them to be hun
gry,” he said. “Of course, I want
them hungry when they come in.”
A&M is a “meat and potatoes”
kind of school, and the Country
Inn Steak House in Somerville is a
“meat and potatoes” kind of place,
Archer said.
Students are invited to satisfy
their meat and potatoes cravings
by visiting the steak house at Texas
36 south with a date or friends.
Because, in the immortal words
of Homer Simpson, “You can’t win
friends with salad.”
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a ^i4tAon^o^mon company
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ETHICON, INC. a Johnson & Johnson
Company, will be conducting an on-campus
interview on October 23 for the following
positions:
Supervisors
Engineers
The resume deadline is September 16.
December Graduates
Official Texas A&M
Graduation Announcements
On Sale Now
through October 3, 1997
For All Information and To Place Your Order
access the Web at:
http://graduation.tamu.edu
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All orders must be placed over the Web
All payments must be received by October 3
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Michael Murphey '93
Owner
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Welcome Back Ags!
Don’t miss out on the BIG celebration!
The Department of Multicultural
Services is
“Celebrating a Decade of
Dedication to Diversity!”
on
September 12-14
Come join the department in a weekend
of activities:
Friday. Sept, 12
8-10 p.m., Room 212/224 MSC
Jazz artist Karan Chavis
and the Big Apple Trio
co-sponsored by MSC Town Hall and
Black Awareness Committee
FREE CONCERT!!
Saturday. Sept. 13
9 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., Rudder Tower
Workshops focusing on career
networking, graduate school, and
the Hopwood case.
FREEH
10 p.m. - 1 a.m., 212/224 MSC
PARTY
$5 cover
Call 862-2000 for more information.
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INFORMATION SESSION
Discover the vast opportunities available
with a global automotive organization.
Information Session:
* September 18
* 6:30-8:30pm
* 301 MSC
* Food Sc
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Full-time & internship
positions available in:
* Marketing & Sales
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* Information Technology
* Product Development
* CAE
Interviews October 15 & 16. Resumes accepted
through the Career Center September 15-24.
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